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The federal government is running a pricey ad campaign to inform parents about the enhanced Universal Child Care Benefit. But most families will only pocket a fraction of the dollar amounts being advertised, which has critics upset.

A Scarborough MP says a ruling he owes Canadian taxpayers $141,467 shows a House of Commons board acted as “a kangaroo court.”
Dan Harris is one of 68 New Democrats MPs ordered by the Board of Internal Economy last year to pay back a total of $2.7 mill

Just hours after Hillary Clinton unveiled her presidential campaign's push to solve global warming through an aggressive carbon-cutting plan, she sauntered up the steps of a 19-seat private jet in Des Moines, Iowa. The aircraft, a Dassault model Falcon 90

Longtime Canadian politician Flora MacDonald has died at age 89. Born in Nova Scotia, she worked for many Conservative governments during a long political career, which included becoming Canada's first female foreign affairs minister.

Bernie Sanders' favorable rating from the U.S. public has doubled since March, rising to 24% from 12%, while Hillary Clinton's rating has slipped five percentage points since April. She now tilts negative, 48% vs. 43%.

Stephen Harper says he has a plan to force the provinces to accept Senate reform, or see the upper chamber starved of new senators — he's "just not going to make the appointments." Tom Mulcair says he's not complaining. But is it legal and will it work?

The U.S. Congress took a first step Wednesday in backing away from a continental trade war, with lawmakers voting repeal a disputed meat-labelling law that has prompted threats of tariffs from Canada against a range of U.S. products including wine, chocol

Foreign Affairs bureaucrats were told this spring to produce three terrorism-related statements for minister Rob Nicholson to make to the media each week, ahead of a fall election in which security and Canada's response to terrorism are expected to be key

The federal government says this week's child-care lump-sum payouts will help families and stimulate the economy without negatively affecting the projected budget surplus. Here's a closer look at the impact of the increased UCCB payments.

World powers and Iran struck a landmark deal Tuesday to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions. "This deal offers an opportunity to move in a new direction," President Barack Obama said.

When Army Sgt. Patrick Hart decided a decade ago that he would not serve in the war in Iraq, he expected to follow the same path as thousands of American war resisters during the Vietnam era and take refuge across the border.

Federal leaders across North America need to “get with it” and tackle climate change from the top.
That was the message from California Governor Jerry Brown, Quebec Premier Phillipe Couillard and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne on Wednesday at the Clima

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Watson says he has quit the Toronto Star for what he calls its “refusal” to publish a story about last year’s discovery of a ship in the Arctic.
In a blog post, Watson writes that federal civil servants and others

The Conservatives are heading toward their lowest share of the vote in any election since the Second World War. But that may not be as bad as it sounds for Stephen Harper's party. Polls analyst Eric Grenier explains.

He carefully singled them out, naming Romeo Saganash from the New Democratic Party, Carolyn Bennett from the federal Liberal Party and Quebec Aboriginal Affairs minister Geoffrey Kelley. Then, in a moment of pure political theatre, he seemed to point to a

The South Carolina Senate voted Monday to pull the Confederate flag off the Capitol grounds, clearing the way for a historic measure that could remove the banner more than five decades after it was first flown above the Statehouse to protest integration.

Inadequate public transit has become as Canadian as maple syrup, and cities are struggling to find affordable solutions. The problem? Too much political wrangling and an outdated approach to new infrastructure projects.

A report published online by Maclean's magazine says NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair was in discussions in 2007 to join the Conservative Party as a senior adviser on the environment to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

An investigation by Canada's information commissioner raises red flags about the potential deletion of crucial emails by the prime minister's staff. The probe, triggered by the temporary disappearance of emails in the Mike Duffy criminal case, calls on th

Two municipalities in the province of Alberta received a mere $5.66 million from a controversial $2 billion fund which was announced as a national fund to support infrastructure projects across the country

Read 'British man kicked out of Canada for helping girlfriend fix up her apartment' from our blog Daily Buzz on Yahoo News Canada. A young British man was given “eight days to leave Canada” for helping his girlfriend fix up her apartment.

A Liberal government would lift the Mexican visa requirement and host a new trilateral summit with Mexico and the U.S. to repair relations with Canada's North American neighbours, party leader Justin Trudeau says.

A provincial government plan to fund scholarships for Asian public school and post-secondary students to study in B.C. is facing sharp criticism from education officials and student groups.
During a news conference with Vancouver’s Chinese-language med

Senator Don Meredith is no longer with the Conservative caucus, CBC News has confirmed, after an Ottawa teenager alleged she had an inappropriate sexual relationship with him that began when she was 16.

He may be the 'World’s Best Mayor,' but Naheed Nenshi’s popularity appears to be slipping in Calgary. According to results of a new survey by Mainstreet Technologies, Nenshi’s approval rating has dropped to 57 per cent.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau presents part of the vision for what a future Liberal government would look like, including replacing the first-past-the-post voting system and ensuring gender parity in government appointments.

Cabinet ministers, government officials and senior RCMP figures applied "a lot of pressure" on RCMP agents to accelerate the destruction of long-gun registry records, despite active access to information requests and written assurances the records would b